African Railway Education and Research Institute (ARERI) is one of African Center of Excellency supported by the World Bank. The aim of the center is to strengthen railway professionals’ development through short-term training, MSc and PhD level education, and research in Ethiopian and the region at large. To this effect ARERI is offering scholarships to citizens in African countries to pursue MSc/PhD studies in Railway Engineering for the second semester of 2016 / 2017 academic year.

Eligible Applicants

Applicants have to:-

Have completed their last degree less than six years ago during the time of application

Be Citizens of African countries

For MSc applicants: Applicants should have Bachelor’s degree qualification with at least a CGPA of 3.00/4.00 for males and 2.5/4.00 for females (Countries which uses other grading should be converted to 4.00 scale).

For PhD applicants: Applicants should have MSc degree qualification with at least a CGPA of 3.50 for males and 3.25 for females (Countries which uses other grading should be converted to 4.00 scale).

The applicant should write a personal statement/motivation letter describing the candidate`s interest to join the program.

The applicant should have two letters of recommendations of advisors/ supervisors from previous educational institutions.

For Ph.D., research proposal including a detailed work plan (10 to 15 pages). Plagiarism will be checked!

Female candidates and candidates from less privileged regions or groups as well as candidates with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.

Scholarships are available for two years (Master) or four semesters only and four years for PhD. The scholarship will be initially granted for one semester and may be extended for those who completed the first semester successfully.

Application Procedure

The applicants must submit the softcopy through the following email addresses birhanu.beshah@aait.edu.et or birhanu.reesom@aait.edu.et. Applicants who meet all requirements will be selected and awarded the scholarship according to their academic status. The application will only be complete if the following documents are submitted:

Signed curriculum vitae scanned in PDF; please use the Europass CV template (http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu)

Certified scanned PDF copies of all university degree certificates

Certified scanned PDF copies of all university transcripts (for Ethiopians, those who have university transcripts)